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Pine Ridge High School Project LIT Community Book Club
Pine Ridge High Deltona FL
Joined September 2021
Students, educators, & parents in FL are desperately in need of change during 2024 Legislative Session (opening today). The Freedom to Learn Act filed in both the Florida House and Senate seeks to correct many of the unnecessary censorship issues caused by past legislation.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is hit with more devastating news as a prominent Democratic Senator comes out in favor of banning Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — which bans insurrectionists from holding office ever again. In a bombshell new interview,
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Photos of covered shelves in @ecpsfl libraries are raising concerns among parents and citizens. One parent says it’s “incredibly ironic” that organizations such as @Moms4Liberty are touting book removals as “parental choice” since she wasn’t given one. https://t.co/JW4W1o1Ha4
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Parents have raised concerns that books are inaccessible in high school libraries as the district reviews materials to be in compliance with Florida's expansion of "Don't Say Gay" law.
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What’s NOT in the AA History standards is also important. Educators can have their certification challenged by any parent that believes they “instructed” on topics of racism/discrimination in an age inappropriate way. And “age-appropriate” is defined by what is in the standards.
Let’s chat about the chilling effect on instruction, classroom discussion, and what’s available in the library for self-selection thanks to the rules that were passed yesterday related to standards and principles.
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"The conversations we're having at an administrative level of how to protect our staff in the library are something I don't think I would've ever considered five years ago.”
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YES!
As one parent of an Escambia County Public Schools student said:
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In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him.
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Ridiculous
Hoopla and Overdrive are now banned for those under 18 in the state of Mississippi, thanks to a new law which took effect July 1. https://t.co/NDSIFO0Dmm
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Censorship is happening in FL. @veronikellymars of Book Riot gave a wonderful explanation of what causes soft and self-censorship last week in her Literary Activism newsletter (you should subscribe), and we wanted to create a visual to expand on her definition.
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New info out of Manatee Schools. The list they share online does not tell the whole story of how the restrictions/removals came to be and what’s still to come. You can see their list here: https://t.co/9FRngh5UUP
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Just because race is mentioned does not make the lesson CRT
The OK superintendent of schools says the Tulsa Race Massacre shld be taught without reference to race, or else that would be "CRT". Just the latest effort to pressure educators to peddle warped versions of history that omit, er, critical details. #EdScare
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In 1984. Recent law school grad Greg Abbott was jogging in the affluent Houston, Texas suburb of River Oaks. When he jogged past Divorce attorney Roy Moore's home. A giant oak tree broke and tragically fell on Greg Abbott. Crushing his spine and leaving him paralyzed. Uninsured
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“The complaint said the Lake County school district had “cited no legitimate pedagogical reason for its decision.” The lawsuit went on to argue that…‘Tango’ was restricted for illegitimate, narrowly partisan and political reasons.”
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The authors of a picture book about a penguin family with two fathers sued the state and a school district that removed the book from libraries.
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More evidence of the chilling effect of HB1069 - the new law that goes into effect on 7/1/23. @OCPSnews has advised their media specialists doing summer approvals of classroom libraries to immediately reject books for any depiction or description of “sexual conduct.”
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🧵Ta-Nehisi Coates’ acclaimed memoir Between the World and Me was removed from an advanced placement course in South Carolina after students complained it made them feel “ashamed to be Caucasian."
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BREAKING: Retired U.S. Army general blasts Trump in a devastating rant — and destroys every single one of his Republican enablers who are claiming that Trump “did nothing wrong” when he stole military intel. First, the former general set his sights on Donald Trump, declaring
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Overheard: "What’s with all the orange smoke?" asked Piglet. "Oh, that's Trump's ass getting burned by the Rule of Law,” replied Pooh.
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Here’s a reminder that a number of FL districts BANNED this book after the Governor mischaracterized it in a March press conference. No review - just took his word for it. Volusia even ignored a committee decision to retain it:
orlandosentinel.com
A new report approved by the State Board of Education could become a guidebook for more uncalled book challenges, the Florida Freedom to Read Project contends.
We're pushing back against the activists and politicians who want to ban Flamer, a coming-of-age story of a teenage boy, by @MikeCurato, a book that NPR said in 2020 "offers real hope — not just rainbows — to queer kids." #PrideMonth #lgbtq #lgbtqbooks #suicideprevention
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